The Vedanta philosophy is neither optimistic nor
pessimistic.
It voices both these views and takes things as they are.
It admits
that this world is a mixture of good and evil, happiness and misery, and that
to increase the one, one must of necessity increase the other.
There will never
be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in
terms. The great secret revealed by this analysis is that good and bad are not
two cut-and-dried, separate existences. There is not one thing in this
world of ours which you can label as good and good alone, and there is not one
thing in the universe which you can label as bad and bad alone.
The very same
phenomenon which is appearing to be good now, may appear to be bad tomorrow.
The same thing which is producing misery in one, may produce happiness in
another.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Jnana-Yoga, London
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